Chronic, selective forebrain responses to excitotoxic dorsal horn injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 220-226

  Morrow, Thomas J ^a,b,c   Paulson, Pamela E ^a,b   Brewer, Kori L ^d   Yezierski, Robert P ^e   Casey, Kenneth L ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Diencephalon; Plasticity; Quisqualic acid; Regional cerebral blood flow; Somatosensory; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; FOREBRAIN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0034057088     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7246     Document Type: Article

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